Tally Ho

Tally Ho

Released Dec 2017

Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and unruffled grace?

94% positive · 118 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Tally Ho is a 600,000-word interactive fiction game released on December 14, 2017 by Choice of Games. The store description presents it as a complete, self-contained narrative experience — a fully realized comedy of manners set in 1920s England. There is no DLC, no season pass, no roadmap, and no developer communications indicating future content. Choice of Games publishes text-based interactive fiction titles as finished standalone products, and nothing in this game's listing suggests it was intended to receive post-launch content. The game launched complete and has remained so.
Evidence
Store description presents Tally Ho as a complete 600,000-word interactive fiction story with no mention of DLC, updates, or future content.
description · Dec 14, 2017 source content shipped
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Media

Details

Publisher
Choice of Games
Achievements
79
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and unruffled grace? As the valet or lady's maid of Rory Wintermint, you'll go head to head with recalcitrant aunts, light-handed houseguests, manage a fox hunt and corral exotic birds!

Tally Ho is a 600,000 word interactive comedy of manners by Kreg Segall, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

It's England between the wars, and the 1920s are roaring! When your employer, a proper young gentleman or lady named Rory Wintermint is summoned to their aunt Primrose's country house Ritornello for a weekend, it's up to you to make everything run smoothly...or not! Glide gracefully behind the scenes to arrange everything from the flowers to their love life, or leave Rory to their own devices as you pursue crime, adventure, and romance! Will you lie, cheat, and steal to ensure your employer's happiness, or will you insist upon personal integrity?

  • Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, or bi, and even poly.
  • Help Rory sort out their love life, or sabotage it utterly.
  • Solve the case of a mysterious sneak-thief--or join them on a crime spree.
  • Aid spies, evade the law, calm flighty flappers, and unruffle Aunt Primrose.
  • Win an Exotic Animal Show and a boat race fairly, or cheat!
  • Dance the lindy hop, or a graceful waltz—or just tut disapprovingly.
  • Ride trains, motorcycles, zip-lines, bicycles, horses, and rusty jalopies!
  • Jazz it up in the Jazz Age, or remain aloof and cool as a cucumber.

You'll be swinging from the chandeliers or serving the canapes in this madcap, but altogether elegant comedy.
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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